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WorksheetsBehaviourist explanation for phobias
Total questions: 11
Worksheet time: 6mins
What is the overall reason for developing a phobia according to behaviourists?
Genetics
Watching other people's reactions to phobic objects
Learning directly via bad experiences
Thinking problems
What are the 3 BEHAVIOURAL symptoms of phobias? (tick 3)
Avoidance
Endurance
Selective attention to the fear stimulus
panic/fear response
irrational beliefs about the fear object
The two processes in Mowrer's '2 process model' are classical conditioning and (a) ?
According to the 2 process model, phobias are...
acquired genetically and maintained environmentally
processed and treated via conditioning
acquired via operant and maintained via classical conditioning
acquired via classical and maintained via operant conditioning
In Watson & Rayner's 'Little Albert' case study what was the 'neutral stimulus'?
The white rat
The loud noise
The fear response
Pain
What was the GENERALISED CONDITIONED RESPONSE that little Albert showed by the end of the study?
Fear of loud noises
Fear of fluffy things
Fear of white rats only
Avoidance of dogs
Whilst we acquire our phobia through classical conditioning , our phobia is (a) via operant conditioning
Which phobic behaviour do we repeat due to negative reinforcement?
Panic
Endurance
Avoidance
Irrational beliefs
Which of these is a STRENGTH of the behaviourist explanation of phobias?
Can be used to develop therapies to treat phobic patients
Explains ALL phobias
Reduces the development of phobia to one factor only (learning)
Explains why some people develop phobia despite having no bad experience
What factors which may play a role in phobias does the behaviourist approach ignore? (pick 3!)
Biological/genetic
Evolutionary
Cognitive
Learning
Bonus question! Can you give me one 'DRAINS' point about the behaviourist explanation for phobias?
